Example sentences of "[noun pl] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research shows that , while across the majority of industry sectors the average telecommunications content of any given systems integration project is approximately 57% , the proportion in financial sector deals is more likely to be about 71% . |
| 2 | In other words the rational expectations hypothesis is ideologically neutral ( see the final section of this chapter ) . |
| 3 | With these words the forty-eight-year-old accounts clerk leaped at Quigley 's throat and , pinning him to the floor , started to bang his head on the dust-sheets that shrouded the household 's £700 Persian carpet . |
| 4 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
| 5 | In its early years the new police force had poor relations with headmen , and there is no indication of any general decline in crime at this time . |
| 6 | Then he put through a bill to suspend for five years the Seven Hours Act , which had restricted maximum daily hours for the coal industry since 1919 , following the Eight Hours Act of 1908 . |
| 7 | Here is what Norman Burtt , for over 30 years the public relations manager at Lever Brothers , has to say about what you need to be a company PR manager : 1Total honesty — with your employers , your staff , your " public " and the media . |
| 8 | For many years the large consumer-goods enterprise that is the subject of Case 2 had a virtual monopoly on its products . |
| 9 | In recent years a major balance-of-payments crisis had been prevented only by assistance from foreign governments and loans from multinational institutions ( particularly the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank ) . |
| 10 | People will stand there and they will clutch something , you see their knuckles are white you know and these sort of things erm or they 'll have their notes you know here , and let's be honest about it yeah I can remember when I started training I think you know you used to cling to your notes a three feet flipchart , you know what ca n't you see ? |
| 11 | In these cases a Senior Police Officer has ‘ first read ’ of any papers and all other personnel involved have been required to enter into an undertaking to respect the security of the information . |
| 12 | Within fifty minutes a Metropolitan Police helicopter swung in across the fields , guided by the radio of the squad car , to deposit on the road behind the cars a small , bird-like man called Dr Barnard , the Chief Explosives Officer of the Met , a man who , thanks to the bomb outrages of the IRA in mainland Britain , had examined more explosion scenes than he would have wished . |
| 13 | In ordinary cases the notice must be a six months ’ notice , ending with a completed year , but in the case of agricultural tenancies the Agricultural Holdings Act 1923 requires a full year 's notice . |
| 14 | OFFER unhappy customers a proper complaints system and conciliation service . |
| 15 | For BGS 's own products an enhanced new-releases document continued to serve the customer and was issued free every two months to interested parties . |
| 16 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 17 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 18 | The most important river in the region is the Marne which starts life in dramatic surroundings a few kilometres south of Langres , not far from the magnificent Château le Pailly . |
| 19 | Five , one , two , three , forty , five , put for winnings a hundred times roll of both dice |
| 20 | It gibes an impressive Windows performance helped by the up-to-date screen drivers . |
| 21 | Presentation of speakers and occasions to present the case are highlights of such work , but around all such events the public relations officer has an hourly job of relating to the media what is happening in the argument and what the various leaders are saying and thinking . |
| 22 | One of the jobs the new drains operation was recently called on to do was to clear the rubber from the runway at Gatwick Airport . |
| 23 | Although for a majority of employees a protected rights contract is usually likely to offer a higher return , there are certain limitations and the accepted wisdom seems to be that the older the employee and the larger the transfer value , the more attractive a section 32 buy-out becomes . |